In this webinar, we feature two researchers from our 2022 research grant awardee cohort: Nicholas Swanson (UC Berkeley) and Shashwat Dhar (Vanderbilt University). Nicholas and Shashwat present on labor and migration-related research they have completed using SurveyCTO.
Nicholas’s project is called “Kinship Pressure and Firm-Worker Matching Distortions.” In this study, he conducts a field experiment with small business owners in Zambia to determine why many of them choose to employ relatives. While the common understanding is this decision reflects information asymmetries or contracting frictions in the labor market, Nicholas hypothesizes that some of this hiring may be driven by social norms, or social pressure to hire from one’s kinship network.
Shashwat’s research project, “Political Brain-drain or Brain-gain? Labor Migration and Citizenship in Rural India,” examines how exposure to life outside the village that comes with greater labor mobility affects the political attitudes and behaviors of those who stay behind. His goal is to advance the understanding of how labor migration and the political, financial, and social remittances that come with it can affect the nature of citizen-state interactions downstream in remote and underserved rural communities.
Webinar Resources
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- Nicholas Swanson (personal website)
- All in the Family: Kinship Pressure and Firm-Worker Matching Distortions (paper)
- Shashwat Dhar (personal website)
- When Exit Subverts Voice: How Internal Migration Disrupts Political Accountability in The Hinterland (paper)
- Webinar slides
- How to use conjoint analysis to enhance data collection in fieldwork
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